Turns to Stone wrote:The difficulty is that it takes time for teams to learn the runs a striker makes, the moves he makes and the style of the play. This was always going to be the case this year, as not only is Maiga a different style of striker to Carroll, but Cole and Downing are different types of players to Vaz Te (who generally started on the right last year).

I'm not into bashing players but Maiga barely makes runs. There's no answer to his deficiencies in a system, or the deficiencies of the team as a whole. We depend on our best players, everyone does, so we just have to hope they can stay fit for the majority of the season.